Hanger for screens and sash.



v M. 0. PALMER.

HANGER FOR SCREENS AND SASH.

APPLICATION FILED I'BB.15, 1913.

. Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

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MARTIN C. PALMER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

HANGER FOR SCREENS AND SASI-I.

Application filed February 15, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN C. PALMER, citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Des Moines, Polkcounty, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Hanger for Screens and Sash, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for hangers especially adapted for detachably hinging storm sash or window screens to window frames.

A. further object of this invention is to provide convenient means for attaching and detaching hinge connections between storm sash or window screens and window frames.

A further objectof this invention is to provide such a device which shall be extremely simple and efficient in operation and cheap in construction.

A further object of this invention is to provide such a device which shall be latched in closed position by engagement with the window frame, and be maintained in such position by force of gravity.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an inside elevation of a portion of a window frame and sash showing my invention applied thereto as required for practical use,-in various positions and forms: at the left side, in merely closed position, and, in dotted lines, in closed and latched position; at the right side, in the process of.

closing, or during the operation of seating the hinge hook; and below, a modification adapted for the side of the sash, in closed and (dotted lines) closed and latched positions. Fig. 2 is an outside elevation of the same, one of the hinge hooks being shown about to enter its seat. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, showing the device in position for use. Fig. 4 is an elevation, on an enlarged scale, showing a portion of the handle and its connection to the rock shaft.

This invention relates to and is an improvement on devices illustrated, described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me March 12, 1912, No. 1,019,912; and in my companion application for Letters Patent of the United States filed December 12, 1912, Serial Number 736,415

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

Serial No. 748,723.

and now pending; to which patent and application reference hereby is made.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates generally a window frame and 11 designates generally a storm sash or screen frame. Screw eyes 12, 13, of common form, are mounted on the upper portion of the frame 10 and preferably on the exterior surface thereof, and said eyes preferably are in horizontal alinement. Rock shafts 1e are journaled in the sash or frame 11 adjacent the eyes 12, 13, the hanger devices for both of said eyes being alike eX- cept that they may be made in rights and lefts. The rock shafts 141- are bent upwardly at right angles outside the sash or frame 11, pass upwardly beyond the margin of said sash or frame, and terminate in laterally projecting hooks 15 adapted to enter the eyes 12, 13 respectively. The hooks 15 preferably are slightly curved and are pointed to facilitate entering the eyes. Each rock shaft 141 extends at its inner end through the sash or frame 11 and is apertured obliquely. A handle 16 preferably is forked at its end, embraces the inner end of the rock shaft 14-, and is secured thereto by a pin or split key 17. The handle 16 preferably is bent or curved adjacentits end approximately to the extent of forty-five degrees, and is adapted to lie parallel with and slightly spaced from either the horizontal or vertical inner margin of the window frame 10, as illustrated at the left of Fig. 1. The handle 16 preferably is formed with a ball or knob 16 on its extremity adapted to engage the inner margin of the frame 10, and, when in depending position, prevent rotation of the rock shaft 14: and withdrawal of the hook 15 from its eye.

In the operation of hanging the sash 11 the handles 16 are grasped, in somewhat the position shown at the right of Fig. 1, and the sash is raised to place thereby. As the sash 11 slips into place within the frame 10 the rock shafts 14 are oscillated, by an outward twist of the wrists, and the hooks 15 enter the eyes 12, 13. In this position the pivot pin or key 17 lies obliquely relative to the frame members of the sash 11 and frame 10, pointing to the upper corners thereof. Then the handles 16 may be articulated on the pivot pins or keys 17, toward the plane of the sash 11, and the knob or ball 16 will rest against said sash and against the inner margin of the frame 10. This movement preferably is directed downwardly to the position indicated by dotted lines at the left of Fig. 1, and in this position further oscillation of the rock shafts 1 1 will be prevented until said balls or knobs are moved out wardly away from the sash 11. The force of gravity tends to maintain the balls or knobs 16 in this position, and the hooks can not be unseated until said balls or knobs are manually moved from the inside. The

screw eyes 12, 13 can not be removed when the window sash 11 is in place, because of the engagement of the hooks 15. The sash 11 may be swung outwardly at the bottom for ventilating or other purposes, articulating on the hooks 15 and eyes 12, 13. hen it is desired to remove the sash or screen the handles 16 are grasped and moved toward the operator and away from said sash or screen, are oscillated reversely to unseat the hooks 15, and the weight of the sash is borne bymeans of said handles until said sash is in convenient position vfor shifting the hold.

In the lower portion of Fig. 1' I have shown a modification of the handle adapted for use on the side of a sash or frame 11. In this instance the handle 16 is formed straight and is adapted to hang straight down from the shaft 14 and prevent rotation thereof when the sash or frame 11 is in place. For this construction and arrange ment the eyes 12, 13 preferably are in vertical alinement at the side of the frame 10, and the sash or frame 11 may be swung out- 'wardly on an arc, articulating on said eyes time manipulating the hooks 15; and in the latching feature of the handles by engagement of the knobs thereof with the frame 10.

I claim as my invention- 1. A hanger, comprising an eye, a rock shaft jo-urnaled for oscillation and formed with a hook adapted to engage said eye, and a handle pivotally connected to said shaft.

2. A hanger, comprising an eye, a rock shaft journaled for oscillation and formed wit-h a hook adapted to engage said eye, and a handle pivotally connected to said shaft, the pivot being arranged obliquely relative to said hook.

3. A hanger, comprising an eye, a rock shaft journaled for oscillation and formed with a hook adapted to engage said eye, and a handle pivotally connected to said shaft, said handle being bent adjacent its pivot.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, this fourth day of February, 1913.

MARTIN C. PALMER.

Witnesses:

EARL M. SINCLAIR, Ronnn'r C. PALMER.

copiel of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

